人間
にんげん · ningen · JLPT N3 · noun
homo
🧑 人間 = person + between: a human exists between people
人 means person and 間 means between or space. The word first meant the world of people, the realm humans share, and later came to mean a single human being. Being human means living among others.
人 — pictograph of a standing person
人 is a pictograph showing a person viewed from the side, with two strokes representing the legs and torso of a standing human. In oracle bone script it clearly depicted a figure leaning slightly forward. The meaning has remained 'person' or 'human' throughout its history.